@doniks that's the annoying part a log doesn't get created, it fails as soon as it starts it seems.

I did load the 0.1.6-alpha0 click you tagged and that worked so I presume something is wrong still with my build environment. Tried blowing away the .build-armhf/ and rebuilding but I don't see anything obvious there. Guess I'll keep digging.

With the 0.1.6-alpha0 click, I was able to confirm that it does render plain text emails but not html ones. Guessing this is related to the existing browser issue where it crashes on certain sites maybe? And I do have one particular email that causes it to segfault outright. Don't know offhand what it in the messages is triggering that though. I was able to send an email though and notifications work so that's something.

@thrrgilag my builds also still crashing... As I said, I think they do since I updated the docker container. I've taken a click that I've built with the old container and "patched" it to the current state. I didn't have time yet to investigate whats the problem with the build currently.
Concerning the mails not getting displayed. Me too thought it was an issue with oxide, but I'm not so sure anymore. The oxide error log messages also appear in 15.04, where all mails are displayed fine. Also I have found some html mails that are displayed fine and some that show up at least partly. But theres a message of the second part of the mail needed to be loaded on opening "failing mails". So perhaps it depends on the size of the mails...(?)

@doniks that's the annoying part a log doesn't get created, it fails as soon as it starts it seems.

maybe something in unity8.log then?

another thought: I remember sometime it seemed that UT was cleaning up the log file after the app closed so I had to hack something like this, so I could keep it: while true ; do cat logfile > logfile.keep ; done.

@hummlbach So as to go more confortably on Xenial, I think it is vital enough to have an
e-mail client fully (or the more fully) operational. So ** thank you ** very much for the apport of all developers work on Xenial dekko 2.

I agree with the importance of working email client.
Actually, I would like to try Ubuntu Touch, and the lack of tolerable email client stops me.
By the way, its curious what would cost to adopt https://sailfishos.org/wiki/Email? Can we run their programs easily?

I agree with the importance of working email client.
Actually, I would like to try Ubuntu Touch, and the lack of tolerable email client stops me.

I think dekko is getting close to being usable on xenial, just a matter of fixing a couple of bugs still lingering with the build. It already works great using the current stable 15.04 (vivid) release so you can take that for a spin.

I believe the email app like others are not open source by Jolla. Just the framework referenced above which dekko I believe is already using. Also given that Silica is also proprietary it like other Sailfish apps would have to be modified in order to work properly.

Not sure it would make sense to swap out the libraries dekko already uses but could be worth spinning up a new project around a different library. There is certainly room for more than one email client on Ubuntu Touch. I myself have thought it might be fun to spin up an effort after we get dekko functional just to have something different.

@thrrgilag, personally I think that due to Dekko plugin nature, it's feasible to try to make UI plugin implementing chats similar which Deltachat has.
I see no reason to have separate programs just for different mails representation..
Maybe merge the two projects in the future. Just a thoughts..

Thanks @thrrgilag for shedding light on this!
Still doubt if Email is closed source by Jolla (never heard of this before), but it's another topic I think..

The UI is closed source the underlying things not - as in most of Sailfish native apps except the browser - although you can find pretty much by looking into the system files as many things are in qml and not hidden ...What is open source and what not in Sailfish OS

@doniks I've just tested the alfa release on Pro 5 and it seams that all works, but you can't see the content of the received email. Only the header. Setup, notifications works just fine. No crashes so far.